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Clement, Stanley L. – Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrators
Download full textAmerican Association of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC. – 1970
Certain basic principles must be accepted if colleges and universities are to function in an orderly, purposeful way and to lay down those conditions necessary to insure the presence of effective leadership on the campus. Some basic principles are: (1) a college or university exists to serve the general society that created it and that supports…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship
Peer reviewedHoagland, Pamela R. – Journal of Reading, 1989
Reviews five myths about delegating responsibility which block effective delegation and discusses nine guidelines for successful delegation. (RS)
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Role, Employer Employee Relationship, Personnel Management
Jordan, Helen – 1997
Emerging technologies and unstable financial issues are placing increasing demands on college administrators to provide visionary leadership. While numerous management frameworks have emerged in the past two decades, from Total Quality Management to transformational leadership, leaders should consider the concept of leadership wisdom in guiding…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Role, College Administration, Higher Education
DuFour, Richard P. – 1986
Despite the claims of conventional wisdom, business and education can learn from each other. An examination of "In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best Run Companies," by Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman, reveals several ideas and practices that schools can use effectively. (1) A bias for action: hold daily administrative…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Organizational Effectiveness
Gideonse, Hendrik D. – 1976
The professional preparation of educators is intensely and intrinsically political; this constitutes the external environment of the dean or chief administrator. What is true in the external environment of professional education is also true in the internal environment of the chief administrator of such programs. The different roles and functions…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Role, Administrators, College Administration
Peer reviewedGuth, James; Williams, Robert T. – NASSP Bulletin, 1984
Tables of general characteristics of philosophies, administrative theories, and administrative practices related to the theories are presented to help school administrators assess their own beliefs and values and move toward the consistent conceptual framework necessary for improving their administrative behavior. (MJL)
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Educational Administration
Smith, Glen D. – Catholic Institutional Management, 1972
Describes the management principles and the mental attitude necessary to effective food service management. (JF)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Administrator Guides
Peer reviewedUnks, Gerald – High School Journal, 1983
Compares and contrasts the role of the school principal in American and British schools, focusing on the author's personal experiences in observing and dealing with principals. Also considers administrator-teacher relationships and organizational patterns within school systems, suggesting that students (not principals/superintendents) be at the…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Role, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries
Beairsto, Bruce – Education Canada, 1999
A "binocular" perspective on leadership combines the analytical, transactional leadership present in organizations and the more personal, transformational leadership needed in communities. School systems are both hierarchical bureaucracies and moral communities, requiring leaders who simultaneously attend to both realities in a balanced…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Administrators
Direct linkBoffo, Stefano; Dubois, Pierre; Moscati, Roberto – Tertiary Education and Management, 2008
The transformation of higher education systems under the pressure of new needs required by the "society of knowledge" in France and Italy has had a deep effect on the relationship between state and university, and therefore a direct impact on university governance. This article sums up the main results of a research carried out on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Governance, Foreign Countries, Resistance to Change
Dahlinger, Philip J. – 1981
The term "Community Relations" is descriptive of the way of life for a school administrator in a small district where administrators are closer to the public. Community relations is more than just a steady stream of news releases or articles published in the annual town report. Community relations is (1) the total effort that an…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Role, Communication Problems, Community Relations
PDF pending restorationRingle, Philip M.; Savickas, Mark L. – 1982
The success of planning in the community college is linked less to the ability to develop new planning schema than to the development of an orientation toward planning and the time perspective required to analyze the past, supervise the present, and manage the future. Successful planning requires that the college administrator be able to…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, College Planning
Freeman, Thomas J. – 1975
Different researchers have suggested a variety of definitions for democratic leadership. As there is no one generally accepted definition, it is difficult to categorically characterize a style as democratic. Democracy in a pure form is based on the assumption that no member of the group is superior to other members. In operation, no organization…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Role, Decentralization, Decision Making
Peer reviewedTate, Michael J.; Cushman, Laurence A., Jr. – Journal of Extension, 1976
Delegation involves responsibility and authority for each staff member in the 4-H program. (ABM)
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, Administrator Role, Committees
